Even though Harold Gray’s politics make him very unlovable, his strip is amazing. What’s interesting about Gray really isn’t his politics, it’s the fact that somehow, despite everything the strip actually accomplishes that essential trick of making these characters seem alive when you’re reading it. There are very few strips that actually get me to drop my guard enough to get a tear in my eye. I don’t know how he does it – the stories are predicatable, stupid… part of it is that it has this intensity of conviction. He believes in it, so he bulies you almost into believing in it because he does.